Good morning everybody! Few updates from different sectors of the frontline. Generally, I would describe Gerasimov’s ‘biiiiiiiiiiiig’ offensive as ‘over and out’: except in the Bakhmut area — where it’s not even the Keystone Cops who are claiming successes, but Prigozhin and his Wagner PMC — it failed to achieve…

Hello everybody! Let’s start at the strategic level. Many are asking me, what do I think about the Russians shooting dow….erm…. not causing a collision with that MQ-9 UAV of the US Air Force over the Black Sea…. What shall I tell you? Yes, ‘up front’: we’re all dealing here…

Hello everybody! Reading different comments of the last days and weeks, it’s obvious that too many people have too much time, and everybody knows better, of course. ‘Instead’ of trying to find out what’s going on, there’s too much discourse on what and who is right, and what and who…

Hello everybody! Another, quick (and: literally) dirty ‘review’. It’s not that ‘not much is going on’: making any such statements would be unfair to all those fighting and dying while trying to wade through all the mud in eastern Ukraine of these days. Gauging by different videos, there’s so much…

Early this morning, the VSRF and the VKS run a large-scale ballistic- and cruise-missile-strike on Ukraine. First air raid alert was at 02.20hrs local time: this was valid for all of central Ukraine, from Zhytomir to Odesa, and from Sumy to Zaporizhzhya. at 02.40hrs, …

Hello everybody! I’m still very busy with my work, thus this is going to be another brief update. AIR WAR/MISSILE WARFARE According to official Kyiv, during the night from 5 to 6 March, the Russians released a stream of 15 Shahed-136 UCAVs, from the Bryansk area: Ukrainians claimed 13 of…

Hello everybody! I’m a little bit short on time, today, thus ‘just most important’ details and few thoughts… STRATEGIC Yes, there is a glimmer of hope — that at least few of idiots calling themselves ‘Western decision-makers’ might have understood what might matter in Ukraine. …

Hello everybody! Just a brief update on Bakhmut (yes, ‘again’): gauging by available reports, for something like 17–18 hours, meanwhile, the Russians are running an all-out assault on two points of Ukrainian defences. Main aims appear to be: in the west, village of Hromove, on the Road 0506; and in…

OPERATIONAL (Level) The last few days, and in the light of the publication of a captured tactical manual of the VSRF, there is lots of talk about new infantry-centred tactics of the VSRF. Essentially, the Russians have re-organised the mass of their formations into assault groups, and (multiple assault groups…